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2020 Kern County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kern County, CA went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 57 California counties and 1500th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kern County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 9, 2020 16:30 | December 10, 2020 03:00 | 10h 30m | 16,233 | 11K |
| 2 | August 12, 2020 15:00 | August 18, 2020 12:00 | 5d 21h | 16,066 | 46K |
| 3 | February 4, 2020 15:30 | February 8, 2020 11:30 | 3d 20h | 8,377 | 292K |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 15:00 | April 17, 2020 11:15 | 3d 20h | 7,696 | 8,078 |
| 5 | May 18, 2020 12:00 | May 21, 2020 13:30 | 3d 1h | 7,048 | 20K |
| 6 | July 7, 2020 12:30 | July 8, 2020 22:00 | 1d 9h | 6,851 | 15K |
| 7 | January 14, 2020 15:30 | January 19, 2020 08:00 | 4d 16h | 6,677 | 33K |
| 8 | November 7, 2020 11:45 | November 11, 2020 05:45 | 3d 18h | 6,656 | 61K |
| 9 | February 17, 2020 11:00 | February 18, 2020 05:30 | 18h 30m | 6,641 | 8,969 |
| 10 | October 23, 2020 14:15 | October 24, 2020 03:45 | 13h 30m | 6,530 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 247 reached 100+ customers, 102 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Kern County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2020 | 7.4 hrs | 1.34 | 2.3 hrs | 1.04 |
| Southern California Edison Co | 2020 | 3.4 hrs | 1.06 | 1.5 hrs | 0.87 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 94% of California's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 395,015 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Kern County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kern County, CA annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/california/kern-county